Building Browser Agents, Infrastructure and Open-source tools for the web economy I Enginears Podcast

Catherine Jue, co-founder at Kernel (https://www.kernel.sh/)Kernel are building web agents in a crazy fast, open source way for them to be able to access the internet. We're going to be talking about the technical, product, and business challenges that throw up something as ambitious as this. As we always do, we'll be getting to know the founder behind the idea, or the leader behind the idea.-> Building a web browser agent and uncovering the use cases and capabilities-> From millisecond speeds to cloud infrastructure at scale we break down some of the engineering challenges that exist at Kernel that you're trying to solve on a day-to-day basis.-> The challenges in building a web browser agent and user / security adoption.-> Introducing Managed Auth: a standardized way for agents to log in and stay logged in across the internet. (https://x.com/usekernel/status/2021581721280401709)-> Who and how they are hiring.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/juecd/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Newly-Series C funded Suno came to talk to us about AI-generated music in this new era of streaming AI-generated music at unprecedented scale and the ambiguity that comes with building in a new category globally.We broke down the missionWe broke down the dynamics of the Platform teamOutlining process of building at serious scale // availability = ultimate goal of platform engineering.How do you scale globally in an AI era where not many people have been before?How is AI changing the platform game?Deep-dive into some of their engineering challengesGrowth over the next 12 months!If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rider-wang-327981116/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Today I’m joined by Deductive AI. Sameer is an absolute powerhouse, one of the Founding Engineers at Databricks, spent 5 years at Meta building large scale services and now building Deductive AI.Deductive are building self-healing, self-learning services. They are building reinforcement learning into their product offering to heal legacy (..even new code) being generated by AI.Sameer's background and being a Founding Engineer at DatabricksRecognising an opportunity in reinforcement learning and self-healing / self-learning code and systemsBuilding an AI-SREGenerating a course of action in ambiguous cases -> an open-ended engineering challenge that has never been seen before and planning for cases like thisBets that Deductive are placing in the next 6-12 monthsIf you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

This week I’m delighted to introduce Ayush Sharma, Founder and CEO of Warp. Warp are building the next-gen, AI-native employee management platform for fast-growing companies. We are diving into Warp’s journey, why they are tackling the employee management space and more importantly the how behind their journey – it wouldn’t be an Enginears podcast if we aren’t breaking down the product and engineering challenges behind this. - 2 years in, closed $18M Series A, alongside YC, Dropbox C-level, Amjad (Replit) - crew of highly technical + product folks. - Understanding the friction points of the payroll ecosystem and how Warp are re-building this with a highly-technical, AI-native approach. - Scale, performance and fault-tolerancy challenges. - Ayush's product-first mindset and how he believes companies of 2025+ will build category defining companies. - Meta points around AI/LLM's If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ayushsharma01/ Careers: https://www.joinwarp.com/careers/rolesPowered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!There's a lot of rage in the AI-SRE space right now and I was keen to get some of the big players on the show to get under the hood of what they're building and the areas of focus. Playing the same game but approaches from different angles.- Hacking and building with his co-founder pre "AI"- Their thinking and anti-patterns behind building a traditional SaaS business and how they are so customer-obsessed.- What it really takes to serve mission-critical services + names like NVIDIA.- Building Rootly as an AI-first company to incubating their own research lab, to driving AI through sales/GTM.Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jjrichardtang/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginearsHosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

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An opportunity to sit down with Darragh to discuss the ideas and strategy behind building out Fin. - 10 year Intercom engineering leadership veteran sits down to discuss building out Fin – The #1 AI Agent for customer service.- Learning how to apply knowledge and industry to AI.- The challenges of building an AI native product from the ground up.- The important of building a world-class AI team and being non-negotiable with the profile of person.If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Guest:https://www.linkedin.com/in/darraghcurran/https://www.intercom.com/careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

Trusted by over 750k developers at some of the top engineerings companies globally like Netflix, NVIDIA, DoorDash + more, Warp are taking the AI development world by storm. Developers using Warp save on average an hour a day from unlocking the power of the terminal, steering agents with fine-grained control, and accomplishing more of their workflow from a single app.• Zach’s background in the early Google sheets days and bringing a true product/consumer mindset to engineering.• Inception of Warp and why he wanted to bring this to market.• A number of key pivots in the business in 2022 + 2024 found the team unlocking the value of LLM’s.• Why they are racing away as #1 coding agent, especially building in the terminal.• Adding $1M net revenue since April 2025 WEEKLY! If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us! Guest: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zachlloyd/https://www.warp.dev/careers/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro. Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.

If you're keen to share your story, please reach out to us!Outtake's cybersecurity agents secure digital identities at internet-scale.The agentic platform is always-on, constantly securing modern attack surfaces with advanced search, real-time threat classification, and autonomous response.- Outtake tackles the hardest problems of online identity and multimodal agentic AI in production.- More than 80% of internet traffic is now image or video. Outtake is building the infrastructure and workflows required to understand this tidal wave of rich media data and proactively protect against sophisticated digital threats at scale.We take a dive into the engineering challenges behind building the Outtake platform + their agents.They are hiring engineers, product, sales + GTM in NYC.You need to go and check these guys out.Careers: https://outtake.notion.site/Careers-at-Outtake-b58a4205553743dc8a5b9dc328e77143Guests:https://www.linkedin.com/in/david-promisel/https://www.linkedin.com/in/thomascintra/https://www.linkedin.com/in/jiahui-j/https://www.outtake.ai/Powered by Artifeks!https://www.linkedin.com/company/artifeksrecruitmenthttps://www.artifeks.co.ukhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/agilerecruiterLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/enginearsioTwitter: https://x.com/EnginearsioAll Podcast Platforms: https://smartlink.ausha.co/enginears00:00 - Enginears Intro.43:25 - Enginears Outro.Hosted on Ausha. See ausha.co/privacy-policy for more information.